Lehigh Valley (PA) Express Times endorses BARACK OBAMA!!

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represents such PA cities as Easton, Bethlehem, Phillipsburg...Good endorsement too, here are some notable comments:

Express-times endorsement

A riddle for our times: Most Americans agree we are confronted with a historic choice in this election, one that will determine whether we continue climbing the mountain or fall off the precipice, with dire consequences. Yet the focus for many voters in this campaign is whether the mud being slung at Barack Obama will find a toehold, and thus provide the opening to destroy his presidential ambitions.

This type of campaigning should be a source of national embarrassment, especially in times of crisis. We can only hope that voters recognize it as such -- and return their focus to the issues and leadership potential of Obama and John McCain.

But frankly, it's hard to get to a place where the campaign noise doesn't seep in and interfere with clear thinking. In its deliberations, The Express-Times editorial board found two things that should be marginal concerns kept coming up as make-or-break issues. And they added plenty of heat to the discussion.

-- McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for a running mate seems as shockingly amateurish and ill-advised today as it was in August. Nothing that has happened on the campaign trail has changed this.

-- The spirit of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove seems to be the energizing force of the McCain/Palin Express, and it's the opposite of straight talk. Slimy campaigning is headed for another all-time high. While the nation is seeking guidance on economic and national defense problems of momentous proportion, this election seems to hinge on the guilt-by-association grenades that Republicans keep lobbing up, hoping to bring down Obama.

If this is a manual for how a McCain/Palin partnership would guide the nation out of a morass, we'd opt for Bob Barr or Ralph Nader first. Their campaigns look like beacons of integrity in comparison.

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1223784372215180.xml&coll=3

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1. Nice

Thanks for sharing :bounce:

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2. That Paper is a non-entity

Get back to me if the "morning call" endorses him NOW THAT would be news. I lived in Allentown for four years that area might be an ok area for Obama, but cant see him winning with all the nascar and hunters.

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3. Sorry, I'm not posting these for only you

and when the Morning Call endorses since you live in that area and then you can post it, ok?